Around nine in the morning.
Yunus H Kapadia was sixty-year-old moving his wife Munira in his autorickshaw to Faiz al-Mawad al-Burhaniyah (FMB), kitchen of the Dawoodi Bohras community, in Bohra Jamatkhana Besar in Kandivalali Barat.
Despite what is called libas al-Anwar, Yunus in a white coat with kurta-pijama underneath and a skull and munira hat on colorful Rida, the couple contains two bags containing boxes and tiffin leaves.
They spent the next few hours, delivered hot food and was hygienically prepared to the dozens of dozens of Bohra families in high rise and small houses both in the West and East Kandivalali.
“We felt blessed that we began to provide food since the day of service began.
I will continue to do it until my last breath,” Yunus term, the mask trembled on his white bearded face.
Brainchild Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, the 52nd Spiritual Chief of One Million Dawoodi Bohras who strongly globally, FMB completed 10 years this August.
Son and the successors of Syedna Burhanuddin Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin have played an important role in implementing his father’s vision to ensure that “no Bohra goes to sleep with hungry.” “Syedna Burhanuddin wants every Bohra household to get at least one meal for nutritious a day.
We feel special and blessed that we have been able to achieve it,” said Mustafa Yusuf Ali, Secretary of Kandivali Bohra Jaul.
So, today the FMB program provides food to more than 100,000 Bohra houses in 900 villages, cities and cities in 40 countries scattered on five continents.
One reason Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin initiated the FMB, said Kitchen Secretary Kandivali Huzaifa Javadwala, is that he wants a community woman to be free from cooking tasks and utilizing the time to pursue a career, bringing out children in their business.
Fatema Ebrahim Lilamwala said he could not start his online trade in the utility item if he did not receive nutritious food six days a week (no food service on Sundays).
“If I can do business other than managing two children and old-in-law, it’s because I’m free from cooking worries,” Lilamwala said.
Guided by a team of experts placed at the Community Headquarters, Badri is expensive in the fort, this program is run by community members voluntarily in different kitchens.
From preparing a monthly menu under the guidance of trained diet experts to peel nuts, cut capsicum, rolling chapatis and preparing curry, the team works with a taste.
After all the Tiffin boxes for 490 Bohra families registered with Kandivali Jadam have been filled and sent, a member of the Fund Committee (item) rubbed the cooking pot and took every fallen food.
“Whatever food is left, go to the poor, cats on campuses and birds in the trees,” said Adnan Dhahodwala, an IT engineer who volunteered with the Fund Committee.